2. Of what use to me is the strength of their hands, since their manhood power has perished?
3. They are dried up from lack and hunger, they flee to a parched land, formerly a waste and ruin.
4. They pluck salt herbs by the bushes, and broom tree roots for their food.
5. They were driven out from among men, they shouted at them as at a thief,
6. to dwell in the gullies of wadis, holes of the ground and clefts.
7. Among the bushes they cry out, under the nettles they huddled together –